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Tent Rocks and Lake Cochiti ~New Mexico

05/30/2019 Danielle Huddleston Leave a comment

I have wanted to go to Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument since watching this Less Junk More Journey video. We also took their advice and stayed at Cochiti Lake Campground (An Army Corps Campground).
We went right after setting up our site since it was so close to our campground. We decided to not do the whole hike that day but planned on coming back to go to the top.
Only the main hike was open when we went but it was a very interesting hike. This was our turnaround spot for that day. They are redoing a lot of the campground so that the showers and bathrooms are really nice in some areas but closed or rundown in others.

Our spot was beautiful but it was in the area with closed bathrooms.

Which was unfortunate since I really wanted a shower.

Also, there was a mixup so we had to move to a different spot after the first night.

We drove down to a different bathhouse so I still thankfully got a shower 😉

The sunsets from our spot were beautiful.

The boys hang out outside a lot. Our second spot was right next to the first and had an even better sunset view. We went on our second hike at Tent Rocks on a Sunday Morning right after it opened. This time we were prepared to hike to the top. The kids brought snacks for the top and water. It is a pretty steep climb but worth it for the view. So breathtaking. With our National Park Pass the campground was 50% off so it was only $10 a night for water and electric!

We were at this campground for four nights so we did a lot of other stuff in the area as well!

I will share what we did in Las Alamos and Santa Fe next!

Camping, Hiking

Camping on the Rio Grande

05/23/2019 Danielle Huddleston 2 Comments

I was pretty disappointed after visiting the Upper Rio Grande Del Norte National Monument that we were not camping up there.

I just could not figure out how to fit it in this trip.I had planned on us heading south to a campground that I only knew about from some references on google maps.

After looking into it more I realized it was also a part of Rio Grande Del Norte, it was just the lower part!

It was called Pillar campground and had water and electric hookups!

We had not had either of those for 3 nights so it was a nice change.

It was not as pretty as the ones in the upper part but it was still a nice surprise.

While staying there we drove on a crazy “road” up to the Gorge Bridge.

It was pretty but there were a lot of people and not really my cup of tea.

My friend actually stayed the night at the rest stop there and talks more about it in her post!

We also went for this hike on the La Vista Verde trail on our way back to our campsite and it was so pretty. I was not ready to leave this area at all and wanted to stay longer but we only had two weeks so we started heading further south the next day and got to see one of the main things I went to see.

Camping, Hiking, Parks

Robbers Cave State Park ~Wilburton, OK

01/17/2019 Danielle Huddleston Leave a comment

I started working on this post at the beginning of the week but colds and allergy scares have hit hard this week.
So what can you do if you are worried about your child having an allergic reaction to something?

My best advice would be to carry a small first aid kit with you that has some children’s benadryl tablets in it.

It might buy you enough time to get help.

I carry it with me everywhere and it helps put my mind at ease.

My twins have some pretty bad allergies and while camping we have had some reactions pop up.

We do have epi-pens for them but benadryl has thankfully been enough so far.

I carry a small backpack with me on hikes like this so an epi-pen or benadryl is always close by.

I am glad that we can be prepared but still go on fun adventures like Robber’s Cave. This place is a great stop for adventure loving kids. Our camping spot was directly across from the path to the nature center which was nice! I like camping at places with natures centers(or museums nearby) and hiking paths.

It gives us some options on keeping the kids busy in different weather.

Robber’s cave has some fun boat rentals also.

Always something to work on when we take longer trips. This park is unique because of the amazing climbing it has. There are several trails to get to the cave and they range from very difficult to pretty easy. My boys of course wanted to take the hardest path.I might have gotten stuck once or twice.At the nature center.Our pretty spot.Back to the rock climbing.Goof A place like this terrified me when my boys were little and we still made sure to keep a close eye on all the kids and a tight hold on our littlest hand.There was a boy scout troop there when we were though and they were all just running around climbing like crazy. So maybe I am just paranoid. There are steep drop offs though so if you have little ones that is something to keep in mind. The CCC trail is about difficult but not the hardest way to the cave.This is the easiest way that I know off.

Still a bit of climbing at the end.

Great way to finish our trip last month!

Here is a video I made of our trip!